Invitation to the Double Execution of William Gay and William Biggerstaf. Montana, 1896. Framed invitation, photograph, and railway pass related to the double execution of Gay and Bigerstaf[f]. Includes the invitation for John Fitzpatrick Sheriff, signed by J Henry Jurgens, Sheriff of Lewis and Clarke County. Accompanied by a photograph of William Gay hanging and a Limited Pass for the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, presumably purchased to travel to view the hanging. Pass is printed with “Anaconda, Montana, March 27, 1896. / Good until June 20, 1896." Framed items captioned “Invitation to the hanging of William Gay, Shown in photo, Sheriff Fitzpatrick's Railroad Pass. “All mounted within one frame. Invitation 6 x 3 ½"; frame 17 x 19".William Gay was sentenced to death after allegedly killing a Deputy Sheriff while on the run with a fellow outlaw. He had previously struck gold in the Dakotas and relocated to Montana. He went on the run following a feud with a Montana reporter and accusations that he set fire to the newspaper building as revenge. William Biggerstaf was a freed slave who was convicted of the murder of Dick Johnson, despite claiming self-defense. Although both men received stays of execution and were not hanged on the advertised date, they were each hanged later (Biggerstaf on April 6, 1896, and Gay on June 9, 1896).